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Winston Churchill CI
Winston may refer to: Places Antarctica * Winston Glacier Australia * Winston, Queensland, a suburb of the City of Mount Isa United Kingdom * Winston, County Durham, England, a village * Winston, Suffolk, England, a village and civil parish United States * Winston, Florida, a former census-designated place * Winston, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Winston, Missouri, a village * Winston, Montana, a census-designated place * Winston, New Mexico * Winston, Oregon, a city * Winston County, Alabama * Winston County, Mississippi * Winston-Salem, North Carolina People * Winston (name) Other uses * Cyclone Winston (February 2016), category 5 tropical cyclone in the South Pacific *Republic of Winston, referring to resistance in Winston County, Alabama to the Confederacy during the American Civil War * USS ''Winston'' (AKA-94), an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship * Winston (cigarette) *Winston (band), a Canadian indie pop band *Winston (horse) a horse ridden by Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Glacier
Winston Glacier () is a glacier flowing to Winston Lagoon on the southeast side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Its terminus is at Winston Lagoon, between Cape Lockyer and Oatt Rocks. To the northeast of Winston Glacier is Stephenson Glacier, the terminus of which is located between Dovers Moraine and Stephenson Lagoon. To the southwest of Winston Glacier is Fiftyone Glacier, whose terminus is located between Lavett Bluff and Lambeth Bluff. Discovery and naming Winston Glacier was surveyed by through the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1948. It was named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia in 1964 in association with nearby Winston Lagoon. See also * List of glaciers in the Antarctic *Retreat of glaciers since 1850 The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and, in the longer term, the level of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston (cigarette)
Winston is an American brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by ITG Brands, subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco in the United States and by Japan Tobacco outside the U.S. The brand is named after the town where R. J. Reynolds started his business which is Winston-Salem, North Carolina. , Winston has the seventh-highest U.S. market share (2 percent) of all cigarette brands, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maxwell Report. This market share has been falling since 2003, when it peaked at 3.92 percent, although Winston has consistently been in the top 10 cigarette brands by U.S. market share since 2001, according to data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. History Winston was introduced in 1954 by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and quickly became one of the top-selling cigarette brands, using the slogan "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should". It became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Winston School
The Winston School is a private coeducational day school in Dallas, Texas. The grade K-12 school is for children who must learn using non-traditional techniques.Sweets, Ellen.Lap-time Lessons Parents can give children the gift of an early love of reading" ''The Dallas Morning News''. Tuesday June 2, 1998. 16A. Retrieved on October 23, 2011. Established in 1975, the school is named after Sir Winston Churchill and offers individualized curricula for students with learning differences. See also *Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge The Solar Car Challenge is an annual solar-powered car race for high school students. The event attracts teams from around the world, but mostly from American high schools. The race was first held in 1995. Each event is the end product of a t ... References External linksThe Winston School {{DEFAULTSORT:Winston School Educational institutions established in 1975 Independent Schools Association of the Southwest Private schools in Dallas 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Preparatory School
Winston Preparatory School is an independent private school for students with learning differences (such as dyslexia, ADHD, and NVLD) in grades 4-12. The school has campuses in New York City; Suffolk County, New York; Norwalk, Connecticut; Whippany, New Jersey; and Marin, California. The organization also operates a post-secondary "Transitions" in New York City. Winston Preparatory School is chartered by the State of New York and is a member of ISAAGNY, NYSAIS, NEASC The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC) is a United States' regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation. NEASC serves over 1500 public, independent schools, and technical/career institutio ..., and NAIS. The New York School is accredited by NYSAIS and NEASC. The organization also has a research and public outreach division called the Winston Innovation Lab. Learning Support Center The Learning Support Center offers academic support, speech and langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston School (Lakeland, Florida)
The Winston School (also known as a Strawberry School) is a historic school in Lakeland, Florida. It is located at 3415 Swindell Road. On December 20, 2001, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v .... Gallery File:Lakeland Winston School commem stone01.jpg, Commemorative stone File:Lakeland Winston School plaque01.jpg, Informational plaque File:Lakeland Winston School02.jpg References Polk County listingsaNational Register of Historic PlacesWinston ElementaryaFlorida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs Public elementary schools in Florida Schools in Lakeland, Florida National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Florida {{Florida-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Theatre
The Winston Theatre is a traditional proscenium arch theatre located in the Bristol Students' Union building, one of the largest students' union buildings in Great Britain. The theatre seats 204, with 5 additional seats for the Front of House staff and 2 spaces for wheelchairs. The Theatre boasts an ample orchestra pit, fly galleries with winchable lighting bars and versatile hemp bars, a large control room, an FOH sound location, two large dressing rooms, and a sliding scenery dock door at the rear of the stage (currently disused). The theatre is well equipped for a student theatre. In April 2013 the theatre was temporarily closed for refurbishment as part of the wider refurbishment of the students' union building, and re-opened in February 2015. History The Winston Theatre was built in the 1960s as part of the Students' Union building on Queens Road in Clifton, Bristol. The Union moved to this new location in 1965 from the Victoria Rooms, as a larger premises due to the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Tower
The Winston Tower (formerly Wachovia Building) is a 410 ft (125 m) tall skyscraper in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, completed in 1966 with 29 floors. It was the tallest building in North Carolina, succeeding the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, until it was passed by Charlotte's Jefferson First Union Tower in 1971. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. After a 2003 renovation in which all 6,033 windows were replaced with tinted glass to save energy, the building received its current name. It has 436,000 square feet (40,500 square meters) of office space. As of 2009, Winston Tower is the second tallest office building in the city, behind 100 North Main Street; both have previously served as the corporate headquarters for Wachovia Bank. On December 10, 2021, Truliant Federal Credit Union confirmed it had acquired naming rights to the tower. The name "Truliant" was scheduled to appear on the east and west sides at the top of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Tunnel
The Winston Tunnel is a railroad tunnel located 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) west of Elizabeth, Illinois. The tunnel was completed in 1888 for the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad, a predecessor to the Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW). The tunnel was located on the CGW main line 152 miles (245 kilometers) west of Chicago in the isolated and hilly Driftless Area of extreme north-western Illinois. In 1972, four years after the Chicago Great Western was merged into the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW), the CGW's largely redundant trackage in the area, including the Winston Tunnel, was abandoned. It was the third longest railroad tunnel in Illinois at 2,493 feet (760 m). Two longer (still active) tunnels are located on the Canadian National (ex-Illinois Central) Edgewood Cutoff Line, the longest being Tunnel #2 near Abbot, Illinois which is 6,994 feet (2,132 m) long. History The newly constructed Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad across northern Illinois used tracka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Science Fiction
''Winston Science Fiction'' was a series of 37 American juvenile science fiction books published by the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1960 and by its successor Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1960 and 1961. It included 35 novels by various writers, including many who became famous in the SF field, such as Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, and Lester del Rey. There was also one anthology, ''The Year After Tomorrow'', edited by del Rey and others. There was one non-fiction book ''Rockets Through Space: The Story of Man's Preparations to Explore the Universe'' by del Rey which details the factual science and technology of rocket flight. Many of the dust jackets became science fiction classics; the artists included Hugo Award winners Ed Emshwiller and Virgil Finlay along with Hugo nominees such as Mel Hunter and Alex Schomburg. Background Juvenile science fiction hard covers had been published for some time prior to the beginning of the Winston series, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Broadcasting Network
WBNX-TV (channel 55) is an independent television station licensed to Akron, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area. The station is owned by the Winston Broadcasting Network subsidiary of locally based Ernest Angley Ministries, operating as a for-profit arm of the company. WBNX-TV's studios are located on State Road in suburban Cuyahoga Falls, in a building which also houses Winston Broadcasting's television production facilities. The station's transmitter is located in Parma, Ohio. WBNX is one of a few for-profit U.S. television stations owned by a religious institution (most U.S. TV stations owned by religious institutions are affiliated with non-profit religious broadcasting networks). History Early days left, 200px, Original logo for WBNX used from 1985 to 1996 WBNX-TV first signed on the air on December 1, 1985, as a secular for-profit independent station. The WBNX call letters were previously used by a radio station in New York City on 1380 AM (now WKDM) until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston 500 (other) , held at Talladega Superspeedway from 1998 to 2000
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Winston 500 may refer to the following NASCAR Sprint Cup races: * Winston 500 (Spring), held at Talladega Superspeedway from 1971 to 1993 and in 1997 * Winston 500 (Fall) The YellaWood 500 is a NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, hosting an event in the NASCAR playoffs. The race is one of four NASCAR Cup Series races currently run with tapered spacers, the others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race
The NASCAR All-Star Race, formerly known as The Winston from 1985 to 2003, the Nextel All-Star Challenge from 2004 to 2007, the Sprint All-Star Race from 2008 to 2016, and the Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race from 2017 to 2019, is an annual NASCAR Cup Series stock car exhibition race between race winners from the previous season and the beginning of the current season, as well as all past event winners, and previous NASCAR Cup Series champions who attempted to run the entire previous season. Two other ways to become eligible to race in the event are winning one of the three stages in the NASCAR Open (a race for drivers not eligible for the main event), or by winning the fan vote. History The first running of the race was held in 1985 at NASCAR's longest and fastest non-restrictor-plate superspeedway Charlotte Motor Speedway (briefly renamed Lowe's Motor Speedway from 1999, before reverting to the original in 2009) and has been run there every year until 2019, except in 1986 wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
